Fight Club 2 Is Happening

We know because Chuck Palahniuk is breaking the first rule.

Chuck Palahniuk is making a sequel to the schizo-trippy novel on contemporary manhood that inspired teenaged boys everywhere to fistfight in the name of anarchy. Instead of traditional fiction, the second installment will be a maxiseries by Dark Horse Comics. Fight Club 2 debuts in May 2015 as a 10-issue graphic novel illustrated by Cameron Stewart.

Palahniuk broke the news in an interview with USA Today, but he sealed the fate of Fight Club 2 last year, when he accidentally mentioned a sequel at New York's Comic Con.

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"I messed up and said I was doing the sequel in front of 1,500 geeks with telephones," Palahniuk told USA Today. "Suddenly, there was this big scramble to honor my word."

In his virtuosic fashion, Palahniuk will use juxtaposition in Fight Club 2 to flashback to younger years. However, the new plot will focus on the unnamed narrator ten years after his creation of Project Mayhem, which is still kicking. The now middle-aged father tries to raise his 9-year-old boy – son to wife Marla Singer – but finds himself repeating the same failures of his father.

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The first novel was "such a tirade against fathers – everything I had thought my father had not done combined with everything my peers were griping about their fathers," Palahniuk told USA Today. "Now to find myself at the age that my father was when I was trashing him made me want to revisit it from the father's perspective and see if things were any better and why it repeats like that."

What began with telephoning geeks may again end in thousands of angst-ridden pubescent's pounding on each other, but the same cultural fate as the first novel seems doubtful. Palahniuk's tone of responsible fatherhood sounds more like impending closure than Project Mayhem.

Nevertheless, a second movie is food for thought. David Fincher's 1999 adaptation starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt was one of the most talked about movies of the 90's.The cult film remains one of the greatest guy movies of all time, and modern Hollywood rarely ignores the financial opportunity to capitalize on this kind of renown.

Whether the graphic novel lives up to the clout of its predecessor remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher made a masterful duo.